Today's political question

[infrogmation]

Observation on what currently passes for political discourse in the U.S.A.

I've been hearing some folks slamming Ted Kennedy for having been part of a family of "aristocracy" and "privilege".

And they call Barack Obama "elitist".

And I notice that these are the same people who had just spent years defending Sieur Dubya of the House of Bush.

So my question is:

Do these people deserve any more nuanced response than to point at them and laugh?

Comments

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

I don't know that anyone defends Bush on the grounds that he's not an aristocrat. He clearly is. The reason he caught less heat for it than others is that his policies weren't particularly anti-populist. Except for immigration, and on that one he caught plenty.